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Monthly Roundup - No.1

Shalom ..Shalom :)

I'm excited to introduce a new monthly series where I curate a blog post highlighting the most remarkable content I discovered throughout the month. Each roundup will include a diverse range of media, such as captivating YouTube videos, thought-provoking Bible verses, inspiring Instagram posts, and insightful tweets. To ensure quality and conciseness, I will limit each post to a maximum of 10 items. So without further ado, let's dive into our inaugural edition of this series. Here are the highlights for this month:~

1. Jessica Reedy has won my heart all over again

What a calm and gentle spirit?... just exuding femininity allover the gaff lool

2. More Jessica Reedy..cah she a GOAT 👸

“JESSICA REEDY ladies and gentlemen!” This is a ALOT ..phew! And some of you thought calm people can’t be crazy at the same time? Haha should have known better! 

3. Daddy Issues w/ Pastor Isaac Williams

“It’s key that we[men] all become father figures to be a father to someone else.” - Sooo much wisdom on this one too, absolutely top stuff 👌🏽

4. James 4:14 - “...A vapour that appears for a little time and then vanish.”

Mehnn the Holy Spirit just reminded me of this one during the week ….We are often so quick to judge each other based on how good/ bad we look, how much clout one has, etc. But none of us came with stuff when we arrived on this earth, and when we leave we won’t be able to take it with us. If life itself it’s just “a vapour”, how much more the things that we possess? (tangible or intangible)

5. Sometimes you gotta endure that weeping for a minute before you can enjoy the joy in the morning

That’s all for this week friends... until next time ✌️

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“For His anger is but for a moment, His favor is for life; Weeping may endure for a night, But joy comes in the morning.” - 🙏🙏

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Who else will do a better job in helping you to “keep your mind” ..than the One who created it? #MentalHealth

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Pain > Pleasure

“Your Purpose is Connected To Your Pain” - Breshana Miller

As human beings, we run away from pain and suffering. This mechanism is ingrained in our brains. And in today's social media-centered world, celebrities and influencers culture, the misconception that pain is bad and it must be avoided at all cost is even more prevalent. However, since God’s main focus is to develop our characters so that we can understand better who He is, I have come to believe that there is actually more purpose in our pain than pleasure. 

I'm going to tackle this from a Christian perspective, but there are many authors (e.g. David Goggins) who have written extensively on this topic from other angles e.g. personal development, finance, etc. Ultimately, many came to a conclusion similar to that "To grow in life, you must be willing to suffer, because suffering is the only way you can grow." 

Now, since there is no need of reinventing the wheel, here is what other believers have already discussed on this topic:

1. God Has a Purpose in Suffering - Tim Barnett

“Suffering is normal in a fallen world. The apostle Paul says, ‘The whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now’ (Rom. 8:22). The world is broken. And we can see the effects of that brokenness all around us. Sadly, many people—including Christians—are surprised by suffering. This can lead people to adopt a distorted view of God, faith, and suffering. This highlights why we need to have an accurate theology of suffering...”

https://www.str.org/blog/god-has-purpose-suffering#.XQ2f4nvTXOQ

2. Your Purpose is Connected To Your Pain - Breshana Miller

“If you think about the analogy of a woman who is in labor, she must travail in pain before she gives birth.  But, when it's over, there is joy!  In Ephesians 2:10, it says, We are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works which God before had ordained that we should walk in them. We are God's workmanship and it is incumbent upon us to walk in our purpose and do the work that God has assigned you to do...” 

https://www.breshanamiller.com/blog/purpose-connected-to-your-pain

3. Five Purposes for Suffering - John Piper

“Finally, Reminder: Suffering reminds us that God sent his Son into the world to suffer so that our suffering would not be God’s condemnation but his purification. Philippians 3:10...”

https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/five-purposes-for-suffering

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“Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.” - Heb 12:1-2

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“For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.” - 1 Cor 13:12

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“Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things.” - Phil 4:8

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“Walk in your purpose, Walk in your purpose - God gave you a purpose.” 🙏

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"Nothing has given so many humans the platform to be so publicly impressed with themselves like that advent of social media." - Joseph Solomon

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"...I made up my mind - I've had some good days, I've had some bad days, I've had some hills to climb. But when I look around, and I think things over, all my good days out-weigh my bad days - I won't complain!"

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"...see, let your whole life prove that God is good." 🙏

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I learn from everybody, even if sometimes is what not to do.

Tai Lopez 

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Comparison Kills!

“Comparison is the thief of joy.” - Theodore Roosevelt

"Why try to match what should be one of a kind? ...You're one of a kind...The grass was fine - Until it looks greener on the other side" 

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Tweets Archive

Be Grateful

1. Your perception is a reflection of your attitude. Your attitude is a reflection of your gratitude. Be grateful!

2. “Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.” - Oprah Winfrey

3. “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”  - Cicero 

Kill Self

1. “Replace the 'I' with 'we' and illness becomes wellness.” - @dasscherick

2. “There is no easy way to humility. Pride longs to roam free and expands wherever space allows. Death to self is the greatest of all wars.” -EGW

3. “It’s funny how the highest praise goes up only when our flesh is being pleased.” - @_lonewolf

4. “How did, ‘deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow Me’ become, ‘fulfil yourself, take up ur calling, and follow your dreams?’” - S. Foyeh

5. “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” - Albert Einstein

Love at the Centre

1. “If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.” - 1 Cori 13:1

2. “I have found the paradox that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.” - Mother Teresa

3. “I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” - Martin Luther King Jr

4. Walk humbly. Live simply. Love genuinely.

Relationships

1. Some spend their time trying to find someone to sleep with instead of finding someone worth waking up to.

2. The truth is, everyone will at some point hurt you. You just have to find the ones worth suffering for.

3. “Just because no one is perfect, that isn't a good enough excuse to settle for mediocrity.” - Tony Gaskins

4. “The higher your standard, the longer the wait. The longer the wait, the more faith is required.” - T. Rain

5. “Understand that even an ‘understanding heart’ grows tired of being understanding and never understood” - @AaliyahJay

Religious

1. “The goal is not to end up in Heaven. The goal is to live on earth as it is in Heaven.” - Damon Thompson

2. We were made by Love and for love, and until we understand that, life will never make sense.

3. Two Foundational Facts of Human Enlightenment: (1) There is a God. (2) And you are not Him.

4. “Faith never knows where it is being led. But it knows and loves the One who is leading.” - Oswald Chambers

5. “God can turn things around in a second, minute, hour, day, month, year or whatever time HE desires. Wait on HIM!” - @Zalika_M

6. “Sin is an inevitable and natural consequence of having a false picture of God.” - @dasscherick

7. “We must denounce sin as boldly as the world commits it.” – Dean Cullinane

8. Every good decision isn't necessarily God's decision. Remember to stay in his will.

9. “When #religion is just an idea, a concept or a set of doctrines, it is worse than meaningless; it is harmful.” - @dasscherick

10. Since God intends to make you like Jesus, he will take you through the same experiences Jesus went through. That includes problems, temptation, stress, criticism, rejection and many more.

11. “We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn.’” – C S Lewis

12. Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset; eternity to the wicked is a night that has no sunrise.

13. “Secularism makes you selfish. Religion makes you tribal. The gospel makes you sacrificial.” - Tim Keller

14. “Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance.” - C.S. Lewis

15. “Your life will be a remimder to another soul that they can overcome. Don’t numb the hurt give it purpose. Prove that survival is possible” - @Niaa_xs

16. Freedom is not getting to do whatever you want, but being able to do what God created you to do.

17. “Today’s decisions are tomorrow’s realities, life today is a collection of the choices you made yesterday.” - A. Michael

18. “If you read history you will find that the people who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since people have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.” - C.S. Lewis

19. Desires for goodness and holiness are right as far as they go; but if you stop here, they will avail nothing. Many will be lost while hoping and desiring to be Christians. They do not come to the point of yielding the will to God. They do not now choose to be Christians. - {SC47.2}

20. “Someday my heart will pound its last beat. My pulse will go still, but my spirit will soar to God who gave it. He will judge me by His Word.” - Ken Raddio

Be the Best you Can Be

1. Pray as though everything depends on God. Work as though everything depends on you. #WorkHard #PrayEvenHarder

2. Just be true to who you are. You were born an original don't die a copy.

3. “Live your life outside the box, because when you die you're going into one.” - Tyler Perry

4. “Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” - John Wooden

5. “Without uncertainty there's no progress. Live your life without limits. Enjoy it. Embrace it. Love it.” - @CrisOkero

6. “Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” - George Bernard Shaw

7. “When you stop growing you start dying.” - William Burroughs.

8. “Life is short. Christ lived for 33 years but fulfilled His purpose. Live everyday like it’s your last and be pleasing unto God." - @FaithChildMusic

9. “Most  people would choose unhappiness over uncertainty.” - @CrisOkero

10. “Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.” - M. Savant

11. “When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.” - Louis Binstock

12. “If you don't get it the first time, what do you do? Walk away? Maybe they didn't hear the knock. Try Again.” #determination - Jackson Ogunyemi

13. Your mind is your greatest asset. Invest in your mind and you’ll always be wealthy.

14. “Try not be a man of success but a man value.” - Albert Einstein

Miscellaneous

1. “We must always have old memories and young hopes.” - Arsene Houssaye

2. I wouldn't turn back time and change anything, unless I could change everything.

3. In some of the third world countries, an 13 year old is leading his family. In the U.S/U.K they are reciting their favorite singer’s lyrics.

4. “A contented mind, a cheerful spirit, is health to the body and strength to the soul.” - ML 151 (E.G. White)

5. “There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.” - John Adams

6. “The problem with the world is that the intelligent are full of doubts while the stupid ones are full of confidence.” - Charles Bukowski

7. “It's Ok to be inspired by someone else but be bold enough to be yourself.” - Tony Gaskins

8. “Death always gives life perspective. The irony.” - @Ayokunu

9. “Man says show me and I'll trust you, God says trust me and I'll show you!!” - @astarmusicuk

10. “Ten years from now, make sure you will be able to say that you chose your life, you didn’t settle for it.” - @itsnakhedibtw